The Messenger, Georgia
Jan 28 2005

“Armenia’s authority received what it deserved”

Armenian newspaper Aravot (Morning) reports that chair of the
Democratic Party of Armenia, Aram Sarkisian, commented on the recent
statement made by the assistant of the U.S. State Department
Secretary Elizabeth Jones regarding Karabakh and other separatists
regions in the former Soviet Union.
Last week she told reporters that “it is in Russia’s interest for
these areas, for Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia,
Nagorno-Karabakh, for these areas to be stable, for corruption to end
there, for the criminal secessionists who rule there to be removed.”
According to Sarkisian, the leadership of the United States proved
for one more time its steady standpoint regarding several issues. The
United States made it clear through this statement what importance
they attach to the fight against corruption and the establishment of
democracy, while the aspiration of the Armenian authority to please
the United States by sending their troops to Iraq means nothing for
them.
“Armenia’s leadership received what it deserved,” Sarkisian said. “I
think that the Karabakh process is clearly failed,” he said, adding
that first of all, the attempt of the Yerevan government to soften
the U.S. position on the Karabakh problem by sending Armenian troops
to Iraq has been unsuccessful.